Moving to the Cloud

Last year sometime I saw a blog post from an MVP that said inside of 5 years we'll be more likely to think cloud-first when creating databases. I wasn't sure that was the case and thought we might get there, but it would be a decade, and that we'd be thinking private cloud first, not public one.

I know there's a lot of resistance to moving things to a cloud architecture, but I think in some sense that it's misplaced. The idea of a cloud, just like the idea of a virtual machine, isn't good or bad. The implementation, the design, the security, and the performance will determine if the cloud is a good fit for your particular application.

However like the environments in which many of us work today, I expect that the mixed environment of the future will include some cloud applications, including cloud databases.

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